| • | A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. |
| • | A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments. |
| • | A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. |
| • | The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme. |
| • | The line or cord of a bow. |
| • | A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. |
| • | A nerve or tendon of an animal body. |
| • | An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. |
| • | The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans. |
| • | A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. |
| • | Same as Stringcourse. |
| • | The points made in a game. |
| • | To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. |
| • | To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. |
| • | To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. |
| • | To make tense; to strengthen. |
| • | To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9. |
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